Adjective: duro
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | duro |
| Singular f. | dura |
| Plural m. | duros |
| Plural f. | duras |
Sample Sentences
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John Wayne representaba o arquetípico tipo duro (John Wayne played the archetypical tough guy part)
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É moi duro dicir adeus, ese adeus para sempre que desgarra o corazón. (It's very hard to say goodbye, that goodbye forever that breaks your heart.) [2019 August 13, Ruth Fernández, “A lembranza dos avós”, in Galicia Hoxe, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2019:]
Adjectives inflected like duro
preguiceiro,
metafórico,
perdulário,
metafísico,
anxélico,
serbio,
sañudo,
severo,
seguro,
sedoso,
sabido,
atmosférico,
estremeiro,
romántico,
metódico,
satisfeito,
sonoro,
sollío,
sobexo,
sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese duro, from Latin dūrus, from Proto-Italic *dūros, from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (“long”), from *dweh₂- (“far, long”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Sanskrit दूर (dūrá, “distant, far, long”). See: Latin Adjectives '
dūrus'.
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